Sometimes I get this one message which says I have been banned and I have to wait for 10 or more minutes before playing a new game.
The problem is players come into my game , I do move , they dont , so -after waiting patiently for several minutes- I cancel the game . I am not abandoning games because both players have no move yet. So can you set up this to be different , I mean if you play the first move and the other player does not move in an specific time, so you will have the right to cancel the game and go the pool again, or something like that, because it has not sense to me to wait the whole eternity for your opponent to move or worst than that once that you had logged out he plays and you loss on time .
Otherwise explain me how to deal with this situation because is driven me crazy.
Thanks.
It's supposed to penalize the other person and not you if they don't move after 45 seconds and you abort. Maybe your sense of time is off and you're not waiting "several minutes" but rather only 20-30 seconds?
If you actually wait several minutes for your opponent to play, you wouldn't have this problem. You are allowed to abort games after 15 minutes, consequence-free.
Also you have been banned from play 7 times. The ban period is only 3 minutes the first time, but you keep doing it so the playban period is expanded.
Another thing that can cause this is what we term 'ragequitting', by the way, which is when you just leave a game's page and allow the opponent to claim draw/claim victory because you are not coming back (for disconnects it's 3 min I think and for leaving and starting other games it's just 15 seconds).
Also what you said isn't altogether true. Your most recent playban is because of these two games:
http://el.lichess.org/DLRGHU7O/black http://el.lichess.org/e0kXxuqFAnd in both cases, it was your fault for not moving.
Finally I recommend playing rated games, which people take much more seriously. Both in terms of how well they play and the effort they put into actually playing at all!
Thanks for youe comments.
#3: This raises a few questions for me...
>>If you actually wait several minutes for your opponent to play, you wouldn't have this problem. You are allowed to abort games after 15 minutes, consequence-free.<<
Isn't 15 minutes an absurdly long amount of time to wait for an abort, especially if you're on the mobile app? I'm sorry, but I am not going to wait longer than about 2 minutes before I abort a game, especially if the person doesn't manage to even join the game by that time. Obviously a single instance of this isn't going to get you hit, and a high frequency of non-movers seems rare in rated pay, but 15 minutes seems absurd if someone is playing blitz or bullet games and gets hit with a string of players who for whatever reason don't move. I don't see why it's so high.
>>Another thing that can cause this is what we term 'ragequitting', by the way, which is when you just leave a game's page and allow the opponent to claim draw/claim victory because you are not coming back (for disconnects it's 3 min I think and for leaving and starting other games it's just 15 seconds).<<
I'm curious, are these times the general amount of time before the draw/vicotory flag comes up? I'm all for penalizing someone leaving to start another game and not returning, this is great. I once had someone run out 17 minutes of a 20 minute clock on me because they simply didn't like the position they got out of the opening and ran off to play another game. I considered if 15 seconds was a bit rough, but then I realized if they are doing more than one game at once, they could keep tabs open in all of them, or use the simul feature. Still, if someone is used to just cycling games, they might be quite surprised to come back to a game in 30-40 seconds to see they've lost it.
thanks for your comment. you are right in so many ways.
#6, I meant to say 15 SECONDS, not minutes. It was a typo, sorry about that.
I don't know the general amount of time, but if they keep coming back to the page, they are actually excusedf from ragequitting.
I suggest implementing a feature like
chess.com. I hate the site but they have their upsides.
Perhaps after 15 seconds you could just start the clock and remove the abort option for the player who's clock has started. That would allow some to win without moving, but in the end, maybe people would start playing more. Ideally, you should remove abort when white played given the aborts that occur based on first move.
very true. I like your idea, I just would say 30 seconds not 15